Pregnancy is when a woman's mental health can be most at risk
Pregnancy is when a woman's mental health can be most at risk - The majority of women, not all, who kill themselves, have a serious mental illness and the most common is bipolar illness . . . for 95 per cent of those who have puerperal psychosis it is actually an episode of bipolar illness,” says Prof McCarthy. “One in 500 women gets puerperal psychosis. For one in ...